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Girls Gone By Publishers
Girls Gone By Publishers is a publishing company run by Clarissa Cridland and Ann Mackie-Hunter and is based in Coleford, Somerset. They re-publish new editions of some of the most popular girls' fiction titles from the twentieth century. Elinor Brent-Dyer Re-published titles by Elinor Brent-Dyer include: *''Two Sams at the Chalet School'' (2008) *''Trouble at Skelton Hall'' (2009) *''Three Go to the Chalet School'' (2007) *''Ruey Richardson - Chaletian'' (2009) *''The New House at the Chalet School'' (2008) *''The New Chalet School'' (2009) *''A Head Girl's Difficulties'' (2008) *''A Genius at the Chalet School'' (2007) *''The Feud in the Chalet School'' (2009) *''Excitements at the Chalet School'' (2007) *''The Coming of Age of the Chalet School'' (2008) *''The Chalet School in Exile'' (2009) *''The Chalet School Christmas Story Book'' (2007) *''The Chalet Girls' Cookbook'' (2009) *''Carola Storms the Chalet School'' (2008) *''Adrienne and the Chalet School'' (2009) Girls Go ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Hoodwinkers
Monica Edwards (née Monica le Doux Newton; 8 November 1912 – 18 January 1998) was an English children's writer of the mid-twentieth century best known for her Romney Marsh and Punchbowl Farm series of children's novels. Early life She was born in Belper, Derbyshire on 8 November 1912, the third of four children born to the Reverend Harry and Beryl Newton. The family moved to Wakefield, Yorkshire in 1919. As well as being a vicar, Harry Newton was a diocesan exorcist and often took his children with him when performing exorcisms. In 1927 the family moved to Rye Harbour in Romney Marsh, Sussex where Harry Newton remained as vicar until 1936. The young Monica Newton received a fragmentary formal education: she is known to have attended Wakefield Girls' High School between September 1920 and July 1921 and when the family were living at Rye Harbour she was sent to St Brandon's School, Bristol where she remained for just three months in 1928 before returning to Sussex. She rece ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Children's Book Publishers
A child ( : children) is a human being between the stages of birth and puberty, or between the developmental period of infancy and puberty. The legal definition of ''child'' generally refers to a minor, otherwise known as a person younger than the age of majority. Children generally have fewer rights and responsibilities than adults. They are classed as unable to make serious decisions. ''Child'' may also describe a relationship with a parent (such as sons and daughters of any age) or, metaphorically, an authority figure, or signify group membership in a clan, tribe, or religion; it can also signify being strongly affected by a specific time, place, or circumstance, as in "a child of nature" or "a child of the Sixties." Biological, legal and social definitions In the biological sciences, a child is usually defined as a person between birth and puberty, or between the developmental period of infancy and puberty. Legally, the term ''child'' may refer to anyone below the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geoffrey Trease
(Robert) Geoffrey Trease FRSL (11 August 1909 – 27 January 1998) was a prolific British writer who published 113 books, mainly for children, between 1934 and 1997, starting with '' Bows Against the Barons'' and ending with ''Cloak for a Spy'' in 1997. His work has been translated into 20 languages. His grandfather was a historian, and was one of the main influences on his work. He is best known for the children's novel '' Cue for Treason'' (1940). Trease's children's historical novels reflect his insistence on historically correct backgrounds, which he meticulously researched. His ground-breaking study ''Tales Out of School'' (1949) pioneered the idea that children's literature should be a serious subject for study and debate.Humphrey Carpenter and Mari Prichard, ''The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature'' Oxford University Press, 1998. (pp. 541–2). When he began his career, his radical viewpoint was a change from the conventional and often jingoistic tone of most c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Malcolm Saville
Leonard Malcolm Saville (21 February 1901–30 June 1982) Retrieved 16 July 2016 was an English writer best known for the '' Lone Pine'' series of children's books, many of which are set in . His work emphasises location; the books include many vivid descriptions of English countryside, villages and sometimes towns. Early life and career He was born in , , and was educated at Richmond Hi ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elsie Jeanette Oxenham
Elsie Jeanette Dunkerley (25 November 1880 – 9 January 1960), was an English girls' story writer, who took the name Oxenham as her pseudonym when her first book, '' Goblin Island'', was published in 1907. Her Abbey Series of 38 titles are her best-known and best-loved books. In her lifetime she had 87 titles published and another two have since been published by her niece, who discovered the manuscripts in the early 1990s. She is considered a major figure among girls' story writers of the first half of the twentieth century, being one of the 'Big Three' with Elinor Brent-Dyer and Dorita Fairlie Bruce. Angela Brazil is as well-known - perhaps more so - but did not write her books in series about the same group of characters or set in the same place or school, as did the Big Three. Oxenham's books are widely collected and there are several Appreciation Societies: in the UK, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa; with a total membership of over six hundred, some of whom live i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Violet Needham
Amy Violet Needham (5 June 1876, Mayfair – 8 June 1967, London), was the author of 19 popular novels for children, a number of which, during the 1940s, were made widely available to the British public by BBC's The Children's Hour radio programme. Early life Born at 9, John Street, Berkeley Square (now Chesterfield Gardens, W1), London,The Junior Bookshelf, vol. 47, Marsh Hall, 1983, p. 192 Needham was the daughter of Colonel Charles Needham, of the 1st Life Guards (illegitimate son of Francis Needham, 2nd Earl of Kilmorey) and Henriette Amélie Charlotte Vincentia (known as 'Amy'), daughter of Dutch aristocrat Vincent Gildemeester Baron van Tuyll van Serooskerken, who had made a fortune in East Indian tin. Charles Needham was a gambler and their finances fluctuated considerably. Violet and her sister Evelyn were educated at home, a common practice for women of their day and social standing. Needham's early life, spent moving between houses large and small in England and on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clare Mallory
Clare Mallory is the pen name under which Winifred Constance McQuilkan Hall (25 September 1913 – 20 April 1991) wrote ten children's books published between 1947 and 1951. Clare Mallory is primarily remembered as a superior exponent of the girls' school story. Prior to her marriage she was headmistress of a day and boarding school in Dunedin, New Zealand and in her short autobiography published in Hugh Anderson's ''The Singing Roads'' (Wentworth Press, 1965) she describes her first books as coming from stories she made up to entertain her students while they prepared food parcels for Britain. Biography Clare Mallory was born in Invercargill, New Zealand in 1913. She attended Southland Girls' High School where she was dux, University of Otago in Dunedin where she studied English and Classics, graduating with an M.A., and Somerville College, Oxford, where she gained a First in English. She returned to New Zealand to teach, first at Otago Girls' High School and then as headmis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lorna Hill
Lorna Hill (born Lorna Leatham, 21 February 1902 in Durham, England, died 17 August 1991 in Keswick, Cumbria), was an English author of over 40 books for children. These remained popular into the 21st century. Life and works Lorna, the daughter of G. H. Leatham and his wife Edit (née Rutter), attended Durham High School for Girls and then Le Manoir, a finishing school in Lausanne, Switzerland. She gained a BA in English literature in 1926, at Durham University, where met her husband, Victor Hill, an Anglican clergyman. They were married in Newcastle-upon-Tyne in 1928 and in 1931 moved to the remote parish of Matfen, Northumberland, where she played the church organ and ran a Sunday school. Hill's career as an author began when her daughter Vicki (Shirley Victorine), aged about ten, found a story her mother had written as a child and asked for more about its characters. The result was a series of eight books about ''Marjorie & Co'', illustrated by author. These began to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antonia Forest
Antonia Forest (26 May 1915 – 28 November 2003) was the pseudonym of Patricia Giulia Caulfield Kate Rubinstein, an English writer of children's novels. She is known for the Marlow series. Life Forest was born to part Russian-Jewish and Irish parents on 26 May 1915. She grew up in Hampstead, London, and was educated at South Hampstead High School and University College, London, where she studied journalism. During World War II, she worked at an Army Pay Office.Heazlewood, Anne, ''The Marlows and Their Maker'', Girls Gone By Publishers, 2007. From 1938 until her death, Forest lived in Bournemouth and Dorset. By the end of 1946, she was a Roman Catholic. Eventually, she called herself "middle-aged, narrow-minded, anti-progressive and proud of it". Forest was a prolific letter writer, frequently corresponding with her readers and literary figures such as GB Stern. She never married and, for many years, supported herself by renting out part of her house in Bournemouth. Ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Josephine Elder
Josephine Elder was the pen name of Olive Gwendoline Potter (5 December 1895 – 24 July 1988), an English writer of children's literature who published ten school stories between 1924 and 1940 as well as numerous short stories for annuals. She is widely regarded as one of the best writers of the girls' school story. Her most acclaimed book is the 1929 title, ''Evelyn Finds Herself''. Twenty years later Clare Mallory, another leading exponent of the girls' school story, dedicated one of her own books, ''Juliet Overseas'' to Josephine Elder, describing her as "Author of the best girls' school story I know: ''Evelyn Finds Herself''." In addition to her children's books Josephine Elder also wrote six novels for adults. Throughout her writing career she continued to practise as a doctor. Biography Born in Croydon, Elder was educated at Croydon High School and later at Girton College, Cambridge University The University of Cambridge is a Public university, public collegiate u ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Wild One (novel)
Monica Edwards (née Monica le Doux Newton; 8 November 1912 – 18 January 1998) was an English children's writer of the mid-twentieth century best known for her Romney Marsh and Punchbowl Farm series of children's novels. Early life She was born in Belper, Derbyshire on 8 November 1912, the third of four children born to the Reverend Harry and Beryl Newton. The family moved to Wakefield, Yorkshire in 1919. As well as being a vicar, Harry Newton was a diocesan exorcist and often took his children with him when performing exorcisms. In 1927 the family moved to Rye Harbour in Romney Marsh, Sussex where Harry Newton remained as vicar until 1936. The young Monica Newton received a fragmentary formal education: she is known to have attended Wakefield Girls' High School between September 1920 and July 1921 and when the family were living at Rye Harbour she was sent to St Brandon's School, Bristol where she remained for just three months in 1928 before returning to Sussex. She receive ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
